G?xEAT CROWNED INDIAN PIGEON. 
"The bill is black; pretty straight; the 
point of the upper mandible a little overhang- 
ing the iicthern. From the upper mandible, 
t)n each side, pass broad spaces of black, 
ending in points toward the hinder part of the 
head. The eyes have red irides, and are placed 
in the aforesaid black spaces. The head hath 
a towering crest, or crown, which I suppose 
to be always erecl: it is composed of very de- 
licate feathers, with slender shafts, and fine 
\vebs, not having their parts adhering to, but 
wholly detached from, each other. The crest, 
head, neck, quill-feathers of the wings, tail, 
and whole under sice, are of a fine lightish 
blue ash-colour, such as is seen in the lighter 
parts of some of our Dove-house Pigeons. 
The covert fcat'ners without-side of the wings, 
and the middle of the back, are of a dark red- 
dish brick-colour ; which, together, form a 
kind of saddle across the upper part of the 
bird! Some of tlie first row of coverts* above 
the quills, arc white, with tips of the above 
red : the remainder of the same row of coverts, 
next the back, are ash-cclcured. The legs and 
feet, which seem to be made as in Pigeons, arc 
of a whi'iOi rjor-. w'-.'t spots of red." 
Edwards 
